Restaurants · Cafés · Bars · Beach clubs
Open, build or co-own a restaurant in Bali.
We take a restaurant in Bali from an empty plot to opening day: site and zoning check, design, building approval, construction, kitchen, licences and the first weeks of service. Construction is done by the Kimo Construction team. You can order the whole project, build on your own land, or take a share in a venue we are opening.
Sources: BPS Bali via Horwath HTL (March 2026); BPS national tourism spending 2025; BKPM Regulation 5/2025; timeline is our own planning estimate.
Three ways in
Pick how much of the restaurant you want to own and run.
We open it for you
You bring the concept and the budget. We find or check the site, design, build, fit the kitchen, obtain the licences with partner notaries and hand over a venue ready for service.
How turnkey opening works
We build on your plot
You already hold a lease or a building. We check zoning, prepare drawings and a bill of quantities, then build or fit out at a fixed price with staged payments.
Restaurant construction
You take a share
You want to own part of a Bali restaurant without running a kitchen. Shares sit in the Indonesian company that holds the lease and licences; terms come as a project sheet.
How co-ownership worksWhy a restaurant, why now
The rules for villas tightened in 2026. Licensed food and drink on the right land did not.
Short-term rental villas had to prove full licensing by 31 March 2026 or lose their listings on booking platforms, and foreign individuals cannot hold that licence directly (Horwath HTL, March 2026). Hotel occupancy in Canggu fell to 60% in 2025, the lowest of the areas tracked.
A restaurant is not a safer bet by magic. It is an operating business with thin margins, and a restaurant on protected rice-field land is exactly as exposed as a villa. What changes is the kind of risk: on correctly zoned dry land, held through a foreign-owned company with a notarised lease, the land and licence questions have answers before you spend. We check them first.
What we build
Four formats, four different budgets and licence sets.
Restaurant
60 to 200 seats, open-air pavilion or enclosed dining room, full commercial kitchen.
Café and coffee shop
Fit-out of a shop-house or a new single-storey build with a compact kitchen.
Bar and rooftop
Bar counters, cold storage, sound and neighbours, alcohol licensing lead time.
Beach club
Pools, decks, several kitchens and heavy power supply. Coastal zoning decides everything.
Indicative price list, 2026
What a restaurant costs to build in Bali, per square metre.
Ranges for 2026 from our own site data and published benchmarks. A fixed price follows drawings and a bill of quantities. Land lease and working capital are separate.
Example: an 80-seat restaurant on empty land at signature level comes to IDR 3.5–4.7 billion (about USD 213,000–286,000) including kitchen, furniture, design, licences, pre-opening and an 8% reserve. Run your own numbers in the calculator or see the full cost page.
From first message to first service
Six courses, in this order.
- 01
Site and zoning check
Before you sign a lease we check the zoning status, the productive-land ban, access, power and water. A wrong plot cannot be fixed later.
- 02
Concept and first budget
Seats, kitchen type, service style. You get a floor area, a cost range by line and a timeline within days.
- 03
Design and bill of quantities
Plans, 3D views, structural and MEP drawings, kitchen layout, and a priced bill of quantities that becomes the contract.
- 04
Company, approvals, licences
The foreign-owned company (PT PMA), building approval (PBG) and the licence set run in parallel with design, through partner notaries.
- 05
Construction and kitchen
Staged payments tied to milestones, weekly photo reports on WhatsApp, kitchen installation and commissioning.
- 06
Pre-opening and handover
Snag list, worthiness certificate (SLF), hygiene certificate, staff training days, and a handover file with drawings and warranties.
The build team
Guides about opening a restaurant in Bali are written by visa agencies. We are the ones who pour the concrete.
Construction is carried out by the Kimo Construction team. We have built and opened restaurants in Bali, and the cost ranges on this site come from our own bills of quantities, not from a blog.
That is why we start with questions a consultant does not ask: how many kVA the kitchen needs and whether the grid at your plot can supply it, where the grease trap and the exhaust riser go, how delivery trucks reach the back door, how the roof behaves in the wet season.
On site.
Where
Seven areas, seven different guests and lease prices.
Canggu and Berawa
The densest café and restaurant market on the island.
Pererenan and Seseh
The growth edge, where rice-field protection decides the plot.
Uluwatu and the Bukit
Dry limestone land, cliffs, beach clubs and coastal setbacks.
Seminyak
Mature streets, higher rents, mostly fit-outs and takeovers.
Guides for owners and investors
Questions we get on WhatsApp
Can a foreigner own a restaurant in Bali?
Yes. A foreign-owned limited company (PT PMA) may hold 100% of a restaurant under business code KBLI 56101, with a minimum paid-up capital of IDR 2.5 billion and an investment plan above IDR 10 billion (BKPM Regulation 5/2025). The details are in our guide for foreign owners.
How much does it cost to open a restaurant in Bali?
For an 80-seat restaurant built on empty leased land at our signature level, plan for IDR 3.5–4.7 billion (about USD 213,000–286,000) before land lease and working capital. A café fitted into an existing building costs a fraction of that. Use the cost calculator for your own seats and finish level.
How long does it take?
Our planning range is 9–14 months from a signed lease to opening day for a new build, and 3–6 months for a fit-out of an existing building. The company, building approval and design run in parallel. See the month-by-month timeline.
Can I invest without running the restaurant?
Yes, as a co-owner: you hold shares in the Indonesian company that owns the lease and licences, with a shareholders' agreement drafted by a notary. We do not promise a return; a restaurant is an operating business. Read how co-ownership works and ask for the current project sheet on WhatsApp.
Is a restaurant a safer investment than a villa in Bali?
It carries different risks, not fewer. Villas face a licensing squeeze in 2026; restaurants face daily operations and thin margins. Both fail on the wrong land. We compare them with sources in this guide.
Do you build on land I already lease?
Yes. Send the location pin and the lease term. We check zoning and access first, then prepare drawings and a fixed-price bill of quantities. See restaurant construction.
One tap, one message.
The button opens WhatsApp with a ready message. Press send — we reply with budgets, timelines and next steps.